Reference Materials

• Health impact assessment training and capacity building framework

  The Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit have published a framework for training and capacity building in HIA this week. The technical report sets out an underpinning framework for the […]

  Authors: Nerys Edmonds, Liz Green, Lee Parry-Williams

  Published on: 1st June 2019

  Reference type: Framework

• The evidence base for routine enquiry into adverse childhood experiences: A scoping review

  A scoping review to explore the evidence base for retrospective routine enquiry in adults for ACEs, including feasibility and acceptability amongst practitioners, service user acceptability and outcomes from implementation.

  Authors: S Edwards, AR Davies, Lisa Di Lemma, Kat Ford, Karen Hughes, Katie Hardcastle

  Published on: 1st May 2019

  Reference type: Journal

• Ideal, expected, and perceived descriptive norm drunkenness in UK nightlife environments: A cross-sectional study

  This study compares UK nightlife users’ ideal levels of drunkenness to their expected drunkenness on a night out and their perceptions of descriptive nightlife norms.

  Authors: Zara Quigg, Karen Hughes, Kat Ford, Mark Bellis

  Published on: 27th April 2019

  Reference type: Journal

• Be the change – sustainability on the agenda

  ‘Sustainability on the Agenda’ highlights some of the practical ways in which we can contribute to Wales’ Well-being Goals when we arrange meetings and events/ conferences.

  Authors: Richard Lewis

  Published on: 1st April 2019

  Reference type: Guidance

• Associations between childhood deaths and adverse childhood experiences: An audit of data from a child death overview panel

  A study to examine if data routinely collected by child death overview panels (CDOPs) could be used to measure ACE exposure and examine any associations between ACEs and child death […]

  Authors: Hannah Grey, Helen Lowey, Kat Ford, Mark Bellis, Sara Wood

  Published on: 1st April 2019

  Reference type: Journal

• Be the change – a healthy heritage

  ‘A Healthy Heritage’ highlights some of the practical ways in which we can contribute to Wales’ Well-being Goals by supporting our culture and Welsh language in the workplace. By preserving […]

  Authors: Tracy Evans, Richard Lewis

  Published on: 28th March 2019

  Reference type: Guidance

• Adverse childhood experiences, childhood relationships, and associated substance use and mental health in young Europeans

  This study combines data from 10 European cross-sectional ACE studies among young adults in educational institutions, to explore ACE prevalence, supportive childhood relationships and health outcomes (early alcohol initiation, problem […]

  Authors: Karen Hughes, Mark Bellis, Kat Ford, Sara Wood, Rachel Andrew, Dinesh Sethi, Yongjie Yon, Adriana Baban, Larisa Boderscova, Margarita Kachaeva, Katarzyna Makaruk, Marija Markovic, Robertas Povilaitis, Marija Raleva, Natasa Terzic, Milos Veleminsky, Joanna WÅodarczyk, Victoria Zakhozha

  Published on: 20th March 2019

  Reference type: Journal

• Understanding the outcome of police safeguarding notifications to social services in South Wales

  Police safeguarding notifications over a one-year period for a local authority in Wales were matched to social care records to understand levels of police-identified vulnerability and their outcomes following referral […]

  Authors: Mark Bellis, Alisha Davies, Janine Roderick, Karen Hughes, Kat Ford, Annemarie Newbury, Jessica Evans, Meredith Zoe

  Published on: 19th March 2019

  Reference type: Journal

• Does adult alcohol consumption combine with adverse childhood experiences to increase involvement in violence in men and women? A cross-sectional study in England and Wales

  A study to examine if, and to what extent, a history of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) combines with adult alcohol consumption to predict recent violence perpetration and victimisation.

  Authors: Mark Bellis, Karen Hughes, Kat Ford, Sara Wood, Katie Hardcastle, Sara Edwards, Olivia Sharples

  Published on: 6th December 2018

  Reference type: Journal

• Be the change – reducing our waste measurements

  ‘Reducing our Waste Measurements’ highlights some of the practical ways in which we can contribute to the health and well-being of our planet by helping to create a lower carbon […]

  Authors: Richard Lewis

  Published on: 4th December 2018

  Reference type: Guidance